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"Well," he returned, drawing a long breath, "I hope so"

"And think so?"

He dipped his hand in the water over the boat's gunwale, and said,

s with that softened air upon him which was not new to me:-"Ay, I s'pose I think so, dear boy We'd be puzzled to bethan we are at present But--it's a flowing so soft

and pleasant through the water, p'raps, as h my smoke just then, that we can no more see to the

bottom of the next few hours than we can see to the bottom of this river

what I catches hold of Nor yet we can't no more hold their tide than

I can hold this And it's run throughhand

"But for your face I should think you were a little despondent," said I

"Not a bit on it, dear boy! It co at the boat's heada trifle old besides"

He put his pipe back in his mouth with an undisturbed expression of

face, and sat as coland Yet he was as submissive to a word of advice as if he had been

in constant terror; for, e ran ashore to get so out, I hinted that I thought he would

be safest where he was, and he said "Do you, dear boy?" and quietly sat

down again